Re: [Webmacro-devel] Bug? Looks and smells like it...

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

> This is not a bug, but a documented design decision.
> 
> A directive must be preceded by whitespace or a newline.  This was done
> to make it less likely that text would get mistaken for a directive.  
> Specifically in your case the parser could could confuse colors like 
> "#FFCC44" with directives.
> 
> I admit it's not pretty, but I think we can live with it.

Duh, now I remember. Trouble is, to outsiders (as one becomes when you've
been away for a while) this looks nuts :(